Question

I want /*{TAB} to be changed into:

/*********************************

*********************************/

, so I can easily create a comment-block (in PHP). However, when I use

:*://`t::
/****************************************{ENTER}{TAB}
****************************************/{ENTER}{LEFT 38}
return

It returns some error. 🙁

How to fix this?

Answer 1

You’re close… The reason for the error “this line does not contain a recognized action” is that you’re not telling AutoHotKey what to do with the text, i.e. you need to add Send commands to the start of each line.

This is quite a lot closer:

::/**::
    Send, /*********************************{ENTER}{TAB}{ENTER}
    Send, ****************************************/{ENTER}{LEFT 38}
Return

Things to mention:

• It actually uses \**space to activate it, rather than the \*Tab that you wanted. This is because I couldn’t get the text editor I was using to pass the Tab character through to AutoHotKey.
• Depending on how your editor handles the 2nd {ENTER}, you might need to add some backspaces, to delete auto-indentation at the start of the next line.